
HoP 300a - The Relevance of Ancient Philosophy Today
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Aristotle's Philosophy of Mind
The contemporary way of using aristotle is very different from the way that he was used in history. He tended to be read as a very helistic thinker, where every part of his corpus needed to be brought into relation with every other part. So in late antiquity, in the middle ages, theyred im much more the way you're suggesting. We now read plato a sort of one big hole. Om, let me ask you about something more specific, which is a topic that leaps to my mind when i think about a contemporary philosophy and where aristotle fits into it. Ayis a kind of a technical debate that came out a few decades ago, and was already part of the
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